Text Editors for Mac
Wed, 11/04/2009 - 4:44pm
I spent a bit of time today evaluating text editing on my mac. Honestly, I've just been using text edit (I really only used notepad on Windows), since I don't do much heavy code lifting.
Finally got around to Text Wrangler and have made that my default editor. The line numbers and color coding makes a few things easier.
But...I'm also considering Textmate and Coda (BTW...I do have Dreamweaver CS4, but I don't really like the load time and performance hit with that for simple code editing).
For any other text editing mavens on mac...
What's your preference for a text editor?
NOTE: If I'm going to plunk down $ for one, I'd really like it to have 'code completion' ... for instance when I'm in DW, if I'm editing CSS it'll know what my options are for something like 'text-decoration'.
Thu, 11/05/2009 - 7:48am
#2
TextMate all the way
I'm a huge fan of TextMate, and have been using it for professional web development for almost 4 years now. Once you get used to some of the keyboard shortcuts, you'll almost never use your mouse (which is a plus in my book). And I wrote an AppleScript to help it integrate well with YummyFTP, so I pretty much just use TextMate and my browser(s) for web development.
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 9:27am
#3
Went with Coda
TextMate was in the running though...pretty much came down to the tight integration with Transmit and they had a slight discount...think the total was around $110.
Thanks for the input folks...it helped!
For lean, mean text chops, there is nothing—NOTHING—better than TextMate. I use it for a lot of individual projects, often for local development.
But in terms of a more integrated solution, or when you want to work more on a server, I find Coda to be a great solution - it's text editing abilities are almost on par with TextMate, and there are bundles for a ton of different apps and languages just like TextMate to make your life easier. Also, Coda's auto complete works a bit nicer than TextMate's, in my experience.
But either one would be a huge step up from TextEdit; I've never used TextWrangler, so can't say anything about it, but for web dev, I don't think you can get better than TextMate or Coda.
Advancing the faith.